The comic detailed the adventures of debutante Phoebe Zeit-Geist as
she was variously kidnapped and rescued by a series of bizarre
characters, such as Nazis, Chinese foot fetishists, and lesbian
assassins.

"[A] very heavy
influence was a serial in the Sixties called 'Phoebe Zeitgeist' ... It
was an absolutely brilliant, deadpan send-up of adventure comics, but
with a very edgy modernist kind of approach. To this day, I hold
virtually every panel in my brain. It's very hard not to steal from it."